Leading Change: Preventing Trafficking of Boys & Men

Boys and young men are often invisible in anti-trafficking efforts — even though the data show they’re at significant risk. It’s time to change that narrative.

This event kicks off the Leading Change Scholarship Fund — a new, community-backed effort to support the development of lived experience leadership. As the first-ever recipient, Nathan Earl, Yale MPH Candidate, will receive whatever we raise during this launch. Every dollar goes directly toward his scholarship — and toward changing the narrative.

Event Details
Date: August 12, 2025

Cost: Free RSVP | Suggested donation levels with additional value

Location: Zoom

Host: The Genesis Project

Moderator: Kathy Bryan, Founding CEO

Scholarship Recipient and Trainer: Nathan Earl, Yale School of Public Health

Part One: Training
Preventing and Responding to Trafficking of Boys and Men
3:00–4:00 PM ET
Covered: risks + indicators, trauma response, substance misuse, identification and engagement, systemic barriers, and policy recommendations
Facilitator: Nathan Earl

Part Two: Fireside Chat
Leading from the Messy Middle
4:00–5:00 PM ET
A raw conversation on burnout, hard lessons won, and resilience from survivor leaders navigating the “messy middle”
Speakers: Kathy Bryan (CEO, The Genesis Project & Survivor Leader) and Nathan Earl (Lived Experience Leader)

What You’ll Learn:

• What the data actually tell us about who is being exploited
• Unique risk factors, trajectories, and outcomes for boys and young men
• How sexual exploitation intersects with labor trafficking, forced criminality, substance use, and the biology of trauma response
• Why implementation (not awareness) remains our biggest failure — and how we fix that
• Gritty, lived-experience reflections on healing, burnout, and what it really looks like to lead change after trauma